I cannot think of a system of law that dehumanizes & degrades women more than Islamic Law. - Ayaan Hirsi Ali

Virginity is the obsession, the neurosis of Islam.

We make our sons. This is the tragedy of the tribal Muslim man, and especially the firstborn son: the overblown expectations, the ruinous vanity, the unstable sense of self that relies on the oppression of one group of people—women—to maintain the other group’s self-image.

[D]ebate the challenges we confront—not with outrage, but with the kind of critical thinking we Americans were once famous for, which takes self-criticism as the first step toward finding solutions.